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New York Times
11 Feb 2025
Patricia Mazzei


NextImg:Immigration Deal in Florida Ends DeSantis Feud With Fellow Republicans

Florida lawmakers will vote this week on a revised set of immigration enforcement bills supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, ending a tense, two-week standoff and allowing both sides to save face in front of voters who consider illegal immigration a top issue.

The rift had exposed an unusual power struggle among the state’s top Republicans and led to frenzied intraparty attacks on social media, which legislative leaders denounced in strong terms on Tuesday.

As part of the compromise, no single elected official — the governor, as Mr. DeSantis wanted, or the agriculture commissioner, as lawmakers preferred — will be Florida’s chief immigration officer. Instead, the governor, the agriculture commissioner, the attorney general and the chief financial officer will all sit on a new state board of immigration enforcement. The board’s decisions will have to be unanimous.

The setup works to Mr. DeSantis’s advantage for now, as he will soon appoint a new attorney general and chief financial officer; both jobs opened up after President Trump took office and named several Florida Republicans to his administration. The governor is expected to pick close allies to fill the roles.

Mr. DeSantis had threatened to veto the immigration bill that the State Legislature passed last month, calling them “weak, weak, weak.”

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Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Palm Beach County, left, with Mr. DeSantis at a round table on immigration law earlier this year.Credit...Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA, via Shutterstock

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